Three-time Kenya Women Premier League (WPL) champions Vihiga Queens have been grouped in pool B of the inaugural Confederation of African Football (CAF) Women’s Champions League alongside Nigeria’s, Rivers Angels FC, South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns and Asfar FC of Morocco. Vihiga, who beat Ethiopia’s Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) in the CECAFA Zonal qualifiers final to book the zone’s sole ticket to the inaugural CAF Women’s Champions League will take on the South African side in the opening match of the championship. #TotalEnergiesCAFWCL 🏆Africa United Football 🔽#AUFtag ⚽ ⬇️The draw for the inaugural CAF Women’s Champions League has been conducted✓#TotalCAFWCL | #CAFWCL#CAFWomensCL 👇 pic.twitter.com/qSr4ERY4kg— Africa United Football ⚽ (@AfricaUnitedFUT) September 29, 2021 Since they were founded in 2009, ‘Banyana Ba Style’ as Sundowns are popularly refered to have dominated the South African women’s club football scene.They qualified for the premier continental women’s club competition after beating Black Rhinos Queens of Zimbabwe 3-0 in the final of the Cosafa qualifiers in Durban. Sundowns Ladies have a number of national team players and this experience should come in handy in the Champions League.Rivers Angels FC, on their part, are seven-time Nigerian Champions who qualified for the inaugural CAF event after trashing Amis du Monde FC of Togo 5-1 in the semi-final of WAFU B Zonal qualifiers.The zone has two representatives, with Hasaacas Ladies Football Club of Ghana the second side representing the zone. The draw conducted on Wednesday 29 September in Cairo, Egypt was graced by Nigeria’s Super Falcons legend Perpetua Nkwocha, who wrote some of the most beautiful pages of women’s football in Africa. She made her club football debut at Rivers Angels FC. The Nigerian striker, Nkwocha, won six TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2014) with the Super Falcons and ended up top scorer at three editions in 2004, 2006 and 2010 of the competition.She is a four-time winner of the award of the African Women’s Player of the Year (2004, 2005, 2010, 2011).”This draw is the beginning of the implementation of a CAF project that is aimed at fast tracking development of women’s football in Africa,” said Samson Adamu, CAF Competitions director while conducting the draw that was also attended by Alia Zenouki from Egyptian club Wadi Degla FC who are the hosts of the inaugural competition.Group AWadi Degla FC (Egypt)Hasaacas FC (Ghana)AS Mande (Mali)Malabo King’s (Equatorial Guinea)Group BVihiga Queens (Kenya)ASFAR FC (Morocco)Rivers Angels (Nigeria)Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies (South Africa)
